Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-11-17
THE TURKISH TONGUE.
OTTOMAN WORDS THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE HAS BORROWED.

Deductions Not ConsempIated by Max
MuIler-A Queer List for the Curious
to Look Over.
But it is pretty certain that there is very
close connection indeed between the Turks
and the English. Was there not a Turkey
company founded under Queen Elizabeth
Have not the English backed up the Turks,
right or. wrong, ever sincel What is the
meaning Of British sympathy for the Bulga-
rians, but that these are first cousins of the
Turks in blood, albeit Christians1 If any
more proof is wanted have we not the simi-
larity of the Turkish and Turcoman to the
English language TO prove it9 Philologists
like Max Muller have warned the world
against accidental and apparent verbal re-
semblanees, but this is due only to their jeal-
ousy, their desire to keep things among them
selves, their resolve TO recognize no theories
which they do not originate. Yet if this is
free country who are the philologists that
they should monopoize any kind of business
or intellectual exercise. So here is TO prove
that the English language is an offshoot Of
the Turkish tongue.
Do we not speak of st. Patrick. and is not
patrik the Ottoman word for patriarch? and
may be st Patrick wasn't patriarch! We
SPEAK VI Tue caves OI a mouse. anu eN Is Uno
Turkish for house Vertigo is the feeling of
falling into an abyss: varta is abyss in Turk
ish. We say ay when we mean to agree with
man; ny is agree. The Scots use the word
ben for the inside of a house; beyn means
among, and is not that as clear as could be
wished! Bol means ample, hence bowl, suf-
ficient for drink; jewab, pronounced jawb,
is sanswer. hence "jaw," TO give one piece of
ones mind. Ruba is attire, and what else can
robe come from! Berber is barber, and the
best BARRIERS were found in the east till Amer
lea was invented. Batn is the abdomen: and
surely batten. to feed till full, must have thus
originated. Bile is safra, and saffron is the
color of bile-nearly. Gem is a mOrsel and
is not gem a morsel. Mr.. Sullivan now and
again puts up his darbies and gives his adver-
sary darba, a blow. If there were no women
III the world there would not be so much kiss
ing; hence we note the identity of kiss with
kis, daughter. Busse is a kiss, and we know
of the London girl who shocked Boston lady
by taking bus right in the street.
AMONG IRISH WORDS.
Now let the Irish have a turn Ulu in
Turkish means dead. and what does the Irish
keen begin with but Ulalone? Dere is valley,
and every place called wholly or partly Derry
in Ireland is in a valley. Bog is Turkish for
deluge, and is not beg place where there
was deluge and where there is now turfan
another word for deluge-or turfl Kilisse
is church, and do they not speak of Columb-
kill or st. Columbia's, church,! So in the
Scotch, bittock is a mniety, as they say, "a
mile and bittock;7 but bichook is Turkish
for a half Bit is end, and what is bit but
a piece off an end? Both Ireland and Scot
land grow plenty of oats-as Dr. johnson
said, "food in Scotland for men, in England
for horses" and OF is Turkish for forage If
all this is not enough there is more in stock.
Mohammed prohibits intoxication; ich is
drink, and hiccup-or cockney, 'icchup-the
result Of drink. The English accuse the
Americans of corrupting the common lam
guage by using the imperative "git" for go,
but the Turk says to beggar git, because it
is the imperative of gidelim, to go.
An Osmanli boy calls his grandfather dede
and an Osmanli uncle calls his son neve.
When an Ottoman girl is chidden she holds
down her head, bash, and is abashed; when
she is wooed she does the same with her bash,
and is bashful. When she gets married she
probably has to do the cooking-that is, boil
ing or hashlan; hence no doubt hash; and
how many American dyspeptics wish the
Turks had kept the word and the thing at
home! But if she becomes good cook she is
called ashji-that is, apparently, of the ashes,
or one who works among ashes 1t may be
surmised that this is an empty guess or bosh,
for bosh means empty, just as mum means
-wax-that is, "close as wax"--and serin
means cool, whence in warm countries ''all
i. serene" is similarly applied. Zach means es-
cape, not as might be supposed, arrest; but
this is the way of the world in torturing
meanings; and kedi or keti is a cat, not kit
ten, and cawka is fight, not an assembly of
politicians. But doldur is load, as when
one is in the doldrums; kodja is an old man,
or elder, not codger, and kabagi is guard,
and not cabbage. Turkish soldiers get but
a portion even of their meager pay, hence
pay means portion. Chok is much or very,
and do not we i'll the vulgarity of youth say
chok full!
AN ADDITIONAL LIST
When boy is masticating candy, man
plug, or girl gum, they chine, that is,
chew, because they move their chins. They
may stand on the kuyi, or coast, of Coney Is
land, and never dream they are on a quay,
and get into hal, or condition, thus becoming
hale. They may go into the country and
make hay for the havwanat, or cattle, not
that any Turk bothers himself about such
thing, seeing the cattle can feed of themselves.
They pay dress in isscarlet or purple and go
out i'll the merry month of May, so called be-
causs the sky is then maj or light blue The
man may be national guard and fall into
rank--renk, the colors. When he comes home
he may give his child doll, or dol, which
she will soon find to be something filled" If
on his return he tells fish story his wife may
talk Turkish to him and say tut or even toot
toot! that is, consider, have a care of your
reputation for veracity. If he is a Roman
Catholic or an Anglican he will have some
regard for church law or canon law, kanun
being Turkish for law, though the word was
not adopted from the Turks by the councils
of Nice or Chalcedon, near as those places are
to Constantinople.
1t may be hoped the student is now ver or
in accord, yea verify that he has got nearly
to the dib, or bottom, of the question, and has
not merely dibbled in the fruitful soil; that
he will not take diger, another view, and thus
digress, but will aim at the merkez, or center,
and thus make his mark as philologer. But
it is not well to have too much study at once,
so it is time to chek, or pull up. And if Mr..
Max Muller, or any gentleman of like views,
who hold that inasmuch as English is an
Aryan language and therefore can have
nothing in common with Turanian tongue,
will only undertake to show that an Ameri-
can citizens birthright should include a
knowledge of Sanskrit, taught in the primary
schools, then, and only then, can the theory
of the descent of English from Turkish amply
illustrated above, be negatived by experts.
There is one conclusive proof which has been
deliberately kept to the last. The Turks call
a siege or field gun "top"-because it is roundl
Skeptics can now sit down.-New York Times
Nicotine and the Stomach.
suppose that the least harmful method of
smoking is the use of clean pipe with mild
tobacco-a pipe that has not absorbed the